Food, Media and Contemporary Culture 2016

DOI: 10.1057/9781137463234_14

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Food Porn: The Conspicuous Consumption of Food in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Erin Metz McDonnell¹

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“…Petit et al [ 233 ] state that the pleasure of viewing food on a screen now even exceeds the pleasure associated with seeing real food (particularly in the case of obese people). Research has primarily defined visual cues implied by food porn as erotic or based on the sexualisation of food [ 234 ]. Taylor and Keating [ 235 ] argue that recent exaggerated visual characteristics more accurately depict desires of human aspiration and reassurance.…”

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Visual Design Cues Impacting Food Choice: A Review and Future Research Agenda

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This review aims to tackle the challenge of understanding how visual design cues can affect behavioural outcomes in a food context. The review answers two key questions: (1) What are the effects of the most important visual design cues on behavioural outcomes and how can they be explained? (2) What are the research gaps in this area? We start from a comprehensive taxonomy of visual design cues delineating the most important visual design cues. Next, we evaluate the extant research based on a structured, narrative literature review on visual design cues in the food domain. We differentiate between object processed and spatially processed visual design cues in food choice contexts and show how they affect behavioural outcomes through a range of psychological processes (attention, affective-, cognitive- and motivational reactions, food perceptions and attitudes). We end with recommendations which take into account the current food store context, the state-of-art in measuring psychological processes and behavioural outcomes and the specific food-, person- and context-related moderators. This review offers guidance for research to untangle the complexity of the effect of visual design cues in a food choice context.

“…Petit et al [ 233 ] state that the pleasure of viewing food on a screen now even exceeds the pleasure associated with seeing real food (particularly in the case of obese people). Research has primarily defined visual cues implied by food porn as erotic or based on the sexualisation of food [ 234 ]. Taylor and Keating [ 235 ] argue that recent exaggerated visual characteristics more accurately depict desires of human aspiration and reassurance.…”

Section: Object Processed Cuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Design Cues Impacting Food Choice: A Review and Future Research Agenda

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²

2020

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This review aims to tackle the challenge of understanding how visual design cues can affect behavioural outcomes in a food context. The review answers two key questions: (1) What are the effects of the most important visual design cues on behavioural outcomes and how can they be explained? (2) What are the research gaps in this area? We start from a comprehensive taxonomy of visual design cues delineating the most important visual design cues. Next, we evaluate the extant research based on a structured, narrative literature review on visual design cues in the food domain. We differentiate between object processed and spatially processed visual design cues in food choice contexts and show how they affect behavioural outcomes through a range of psychological processes (attention, affective-, cognitive- and motivational reactions, food perceptions and attitudes). We end with recommendations which take into account the current food store context, the state-of-art in measuring psychological processes and behavioural outcomes and the specific food-, person- and context-related moderators. This review offers guidance for research to untangle the complexity of the effect of visual design cues in a food choice context.

“…The theme of "food-porn" has been observed in several contexts (McDonnell 2016). In Japan, there is an equivalent term meshi-tero where meshi is a meal, and tero is an abbreviated form of the word terrorism.…”

Section: Co-present Eating: Sharing Food Momentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Media Practices in Households

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How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contemporary household dynamics.

“…Food photography and social media has been previously discussed in relation to aesthetics and consumption, and travel photography has been discussed in relation to family photography as memory making and performance of idealized family life (Rousseau 2012;McDonnell 2016;Kuhn 2007;Rose 2012). In this chapter, we demonstrate how the making and circulation of food and travel photos over social media also have culturally specific inflections that emerge through comparison.…”

Section: Visual Generational Genresmentioning

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Digital Media Practices in Households

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In this introductory chapter we begin with one of our participants, Rika, as she uses her smartphone practices to help create a sense of care at a distance with her aging mother-what we call Digital Kinship. We then turn to contextualizing the methods deployed over the three years in three locations and how each of the three cultural contexts informs different rituals around data use. We discuss how Digital Kinship can make sense of the paradoxical role of surveillance in an age of datafication through "friendly surveillance" and "care at a distance."

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